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accentuality

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ac⋅cen⋅tu⋅al

[ak-sen-choo-uhl]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to accent or stress.
2. Prosody. of or pertaining to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.

Origin:
1600–10; < L accentu(s) (see accent ) + -al 1


ac⋅cen⋅tu⋅al⋅i⋅ty, noun
ac⋅cen⋅tu⋅al⋅ly, adverb
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